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Legislators and healthcare orgs rally in favor of bipartisan telehealth bill

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Wolf also pointed out that the recent bloom in telehealth is rooted, in part, in the government's electronic health record incentive program and meaningful use. Any new policies must do more than simply extend temporary waivers, said Krista Drobac, partner at Sirona Strategies.

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2019: Healthcare IT gains new ground

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Of course, that's been the case every year over the past decade since the first meaningful use checks were mailed out, kickstarting the digital healthcare age as we know it. Securing the health environment: Evolving cyberthreats demand shifts in strategy. 2019: Year in Review It's been an eventful year for health IT.

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Healthcare Innovation Funding – Regulations and Disrupting Traditional Models

Healthcare IT Today

Shelby Chamberlain, Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer at Patient Discovery To effectively raise capital in the healthcare space requires delivering to investors a product that has a clear market fit, solves a meaningful need, and delivers the proof points required to establish a concrete path to profitability. Since the U.S.

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More Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

Aprima belongs to CommonWell, has done some FHIR development, and Michael would like to see Congress condition Medicare reimbursement on real interoperability. Eric Sullivan – SVP, Innovation & Data Strategies, Inovalon. Eric Sullivan – SVP, Innovation & Data Strategies, Inovalon. The Harlow Group LLC.

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More Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

Aprima belongs to CommonWell, has done some FHIR development, and Michael would like to see Congress condition Medicare reimbursement on real interoperability. Eric Sullivan – SVP, Innovation & Data Strategies, Inovalon. Eric Sullivan – SVP, Innovation & Data Strategies, Inovalon. The Harlow Group LLC.

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Microsoft, Amazon, Google, IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce issue joint statement for healthcare interoperability

Lloyd Price

This requires a variety of technical strategies and ongoing collaboration for the industry to converge and embrace emerging standards for healthcare data interoperability, such as HL7 FHIR and the Argonaut Project. Open standards, open specifications, and open source tools are essential to facilitate frictionless data exchange.

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Welcome Back Kotter: New York’s next 1115 Waiver

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In a global model, the lead health system VBP entity—whether part of an integrated delivery system or clinically and financially integrated IPA or ACO—would extend successes and performance across payor types, including Medicaid fee-for-service (FFS), Medicaid managed care, Medicare FFS, Medicare Advantage, and/or commercial plans.